Jun 12 Watch 2:54 A Brief But Spectacular take on writing from the inside out By Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet Michael R. Jackson is a Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright and composer. His musical, “A Strange Loop,” started as a personal monologue he wrote shortly after graduating from NYU and it debuted on Broadway 18 years later. He shares his… Continue watching
Jun 12 76th Tony Awards makes inclusive history, puts on razzle-dazzle in new venue By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Continue reading
May 16 WATCH: Biden speaks out against antisemitism during Jewish American Heritage Month celebration By Associated Press Biden told the crowd it was important to him personally to guard against the rise of “antisemitic bile” in the world, and in particular the U.S. Continue reading
May 02 Here’s who’s nominated for the 2023 Tony Awards “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away Tuesday with a leading 13 Tony Award nominations. Find a longer list of nominees here. Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch 7:53 Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks explores the pandemic in ‘Plays for the Plague Year’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport Is it too soon to explore the pandemic through art? Not if you’re Suzan-Lori Parks, who wrote a short play a day while sitting at home for 13 months and has now turned those into a full-length performance at New… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch 3:46 News Wrap: World leaders urge end to violent clash between forces in Sudan In our news wrap Sunday, fighting continued between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces for a second day, four people died in a mass shooting at a teen’s birthday party in Alabama, Trump spoke at a gathering of top Republican… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch 7:34 Jessica Chastain takes on ‘A Doll’s House’ in new Broadway adaptation By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet “A Doll’s House,” the classic 19th-century play by Henrik Ibsen, is getting a new Broadway adaptation starring one of today’s biggest stars, Jessica Chastain. She plays Nora Helmer, one of the most iconic characters in theater history. Chastain sat down… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 5:49 News Wrap: Massive winter storm bears down on huge part of U.S. In our news wrap Wednesday, a massive winter storm is bearing down on a huge swath of the U.S., President Biden called Russia's decision to withdraw from the nuclear arms control treaty a "big mistake," Palestinian officials say an Israeli… Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch 7:58 Actors Ben Platt and Noah Galvin on working together as a creative and engaged pair By Amna Nawaz, Maea Lenei Buhre Although still in their 20s, actors Ben Platt and Noah Galvin are already performing veterans. Both have played dozens of roles in live theater, including the Tony Award-winning musical "Dear Evan Hansen," and on screens big and small. Amna Nawaz… Continue watching
Oct 17 Watch 7:20 Playwright Tom Stoppard grapples with his hidden past in latest work By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport In a new Broadway play, one of the world’s greatest writers grapples with his own hidden past and its implications for our time. Sir Tom Stoppard's “Leopoldstadt” chronicles a family history he only learned about in his 50s when a… Continue watching